Introduction

Abstract

Chapter 2 discusses three main denialist arguments that the Talat Pasha Telegrams and Naim’s memoirs are forgeries: (1) there never was an Ottoman official by the name of Naim Efendi; (2) a non-existent person could not pen memoirs; (3) the cables attributed to Talat Pasha and accompanying the Naim Efendi memoirs were, therefore, Armenian forgeries. Using original, authentic Ottoman documents, this chapter shows that there was indeed a bureaucrat by the name of Naim Efendi and that he penned a memoir.